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Just now, dikman said:

Using Cosmoline between two layers of leather sounds a bit bizarre to me.:dunno:. Unless the leather is sealed before applying the Cosmoline then it's bound to start seeping through when it gets warm/hot, being a grease. I'm trying to visualise a reason for doing it and can't for the life of me think of one.

And if you find a process for drawing the Cosmoline out of the leather then what is the point of putting it there in the first place?

I guess the best way i can describe it is it works as a moveable adhesive. I know it sounds odd to use but that is the way they have done it for the last 90 years, while trying to get them to move to a different product im also trying to find a way to salvage ones that have been stained if possible

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Yes, it does sound odd. After 90 years you would think they would have found something better that doesn't have the potential for staining the items (whatever they are).

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I know what will take the cosmoline out, but it is going to take the leather dye & everything else that's been applied to it, finish wise. 

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Anything that can dissolve grease is bound to be a pretty strong (nasty?) solvent.......

Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500.

Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)

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A pair of scissors will remove any oil stains on leather, especially  Cosmoline stains

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Why not toss the cosmoline and use elmers white glue . . . or rubber cement.

Both will allow for a certain amount of movement while you are sewing the product . . . and since you are sewing it . . . it is to at some point . . .  be prevented from movement.

Both the white glue and rubber cement will give you that option . . .  and unless you practically bathe it in the glue . . . it will not come thru.

Try a couple pieces . . . I think you will like it as an option.

And just as an ending note  . . .   if anyone came into my leather shop with cosmoline . . . they would promptly shown the door and their product would go with them.  That is almost like hiring the wolves to guard the sheep while I go on vacation.

May God bless,

Dwight

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